[SOLVED] My System was dual-boot, but a third option appeared by itself. Why?

mq15 · 07-25-2009, 08:40 AM

My system was dual boot with Windows Vista and Fedora 9. I don't know what happened, or I don't remember what I did to the system that now It shows three options at start up instead of two like this:

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Fedora (2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686)
Fedora (2.6.25-14.fc9.i686)
Windows Vista

Please help me figure out what of my action has brought this change and how to deal with it.
Regards.

ToK · 07-25-2009, 08:46 AM

Hi mq15,

I don't use fedora. In ubuntu there is a mechanism which creates the menu entries automatically. The mechanism is controlled by the file /boot/grub/menu.lst (the same file, where the grub menu is configured).

Please paste a copy of your /boot/grub/menu.lst here. Maybe I can help you then.

ToK

fbianconi · 07-25-2009, 09:11 AM

You probably updated your kernel, perhaps among other things, and the update manager updated grub's menu.lst or lilo's lilo.conf (I don't know which one fc9 uses)

tredegar · 07-25-2009, 09:14 AM

Your kernel has been updated from 2.6.25-14.fc9.i686 to 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686
Your grub menu has been updated so you have the option to use the old kernel if the new one causes you any problems (unlikely).
If you are happy with the new kernel, you are free to remove the old one, which will free up maybe 8MB of HDD space.

mq15 · 07-25-2009, 11:37 PM

You guys are very right, some updates were running in the session before this happened. Now, how can I remove the old kernal please?
Thanks.

btmiller · 07-25-2009, 11:49 PM

I usually just do "rpm -qa | grep kernel" and then use "rpm -e" to remove any old kernel(s) that I don't want (since you have multiple versions installed, you will need to specify which version you wish to remove. I thinkyou can do this through yum or the GUI package manager, but I generally just use rpm on the command line.